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How Spielberg Created Iconic Scenes | Classic Clip + Bonus Feature | E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
234 views / 0 likes - addedGo behind the scenes of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for an inside look at how the movie was made, and watch the 'E.T Phone Home' scene. Journey back to the magic and adventure of "one of the great American films" (Leonard Maltin) with E.T. The Extra-Terres
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The Mathematics of Locomotion - Christmas Lectures with Ian Stewart
1,140 views / 0 likes - addedThe scof all living things is governed by nerve impulses that follow a pattern of travelling waves. This is true for the trot of a horse, the tripod gait of an ant, the undulating movement of the millipede and even the slither of a snake. Subscribe for re
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How to Draw ET | The Extra Terrestrial
993 views / 0 likes - addedhttp://www.youtube.com/user/cartooning4kids Good morning everyone! Today I'll be showing you How to Draw E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. Grab your ink and paper and lets get started! New lessons posted 7 days a week so be sure to SUBSCRIBE and click that bell
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Bringing a fossil to life: Reverse engineering locomotion
449 views / 0 likes - addedYou can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti. Orobates lived well before the time of the dinosaurs and is what’s cal
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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Commercial - A Holiday Reunion Xfinity 2019
196 views / 1 likes - added‘E.T.’ Phones Home Again In Reunion Short Film Premiering On NBC And Syfy EXCLUSIVE: A short film reuniting the creature from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Henry Thomas, who played Elliott in the 1982 Steven Spielberg film, is premiering Thur
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Space School- Mars
732 views / 0 likes - addedWithin its red dirt, Mars may hold water and possibly alien life. What else makes this volcanic planet special? It's like to be the first extra terrestrial planet to host human visitors.
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How Music Makes E.T. Fly
192 views / 0 likes - addedThe score for 'E.T. the Extra Terrestrial' represents the pinnacle of John William's art, but also the pinnacle of a decades-old artistic collaboration between John Williams and Steven Spielberg. In this essay for the first month of the brand new Director
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A mini, magnetic, all-terrain robot
716 views / 1 likes - addedA tiny robot is making leaps and bounds for small-scale locomotion. This soft robot really can walk the walk, as well as being able to roll, jump and swim. This could help it navigate the surprisingly tough terrain inside a human body. Read more: https://
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Atlas Gets a Grip | Boston Dynamics
171 views / 0 likes - addedIt’s time for Atlas to pick up a new set of skills and get hands on. In this video, the humanoid robot manipulates the world around it: Atlas interacts with objects and modifies the course to reach its goal—pushing the limits of locomotion, se
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Impossible Muons
323 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to Brilliant.org for supporting MinutePhysics! The first 200 people who go to http://www.brilliant.org/minutephysics will get 20% off a Premium Subscription to Brilliant. This video is about how terrestrial muons are part of our experimental proof
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Comparative Anatomy: What Makes Us Animals - Crash Course Biology #21
1,757 views / 0 likes - addedHank introduces us to comparative anatomy, which studies the similarities and differences in animal anatomy to support the theory of evolution and the shared ancestry of living things. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dft.ba/-8css Like
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Protect our Forests WWF PSA Campaign
216 views / 0 likes - addedEighty percent of the worlds known terrestrial plant and animal species can be found in forests. Almost 300 million people, particularly in developing countries, live in forests too. But threats to the worlds forests are growing. We are losing huge swathe
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Ridiculously Fun Dance Exercise For Kids
1,308 views / 1 likes - addedAvailable from Amazon click - http://amzn.to/1yopGd2 DanceX For Kids is the best selling kids exercise DVD on Amazon. Your kids will love working out to dance moves such as the Hand Jive, Cowboy, Twist, Wave, Wipers, Light bulbs, Hoola Hoop, Washing Machi
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Teleoperated Young Child Robot
804 views / 1 likes - addedCite this contribution - Teleoperation: "Telexistence and Teleoperation for Walking Humanoid Robots" online at https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01578 - Walking: "A Benchmarking of DCM Based Architectures for Position and Velocity Controlled Walking of Humanoid
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The Game-changing Amniotic Egg - April Tucker
795 views / 0 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-game-changing-amniotic-egg-april-tucker 350 million years ago, eggs could not survive far from water, therefore animals were water-bound. That is, until the amniotic egg, which allowed animals to live a full
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Environmental DNA
238 views / 0 likes - addedMonitoring biodiversity using traditional methods can often be challenging and costly. With threats to our natural world mounting, it is now more important than ever to monitor ecological systems quickly and efficiently, to help us protect and conserve th
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The Railroad Journey and the Industrial Revolution: Crash Course World History 214
750 views / 2 likes - addedIn which John Green teaches you about railroads, and some of the ways they changed the world, and how they were a sort of microcosm for the Industrial Revolution as a whole. Prior to the invention of steam powered railroads, pretty much all locomotion had
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Aliens | Walk The Prank | Disney XD
1,698 views / 4 likes - addedThis house-sitter's belief in the extra terrestrial is about to come true! Watch Walk the Prank on Disney XD! #walktheprank Official Sites: http://www.watchdisneyxd.com http://www.disneyxd.com Click the SUBSCRIBE button to get notifications when new Disne
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These frogs walk instead of hop
464 views / 0 likes - addedScientists tease out why four species have developed unusual mode of locomotion. Learn more: https://scim.ag/2JB5t02 Read the research: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jez.2182 Frogs in question: Senegal running frog *Kassina senegalensis*
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4 ways aliens could be contacting Earth without us knowing it
723 views / 0 likes - addedIf there are extraterrestrials out there, they could be trying to make contact with us Earthlings, but due to our limited technology, we may miss all their mediums of communication. We spoke with Doug Vakoch, the president of the Messaging to Extra-Terres
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Astronomer Explains How SETI Searches for Aliens | WIRED
403 views / 0 likes - addedIs there any life beyond Earth? SETI Institute Director Emeritus Jill Tarter believes we will find that answer in the 21st century. Jill explains the science and logistics that goes into searching for extra-terrestrial life, and the reasons why there's st
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Amazing hobbyist robot that can do everything
422 views / 0 likes - addednaminukas started as a pneumatic walking and driving #robot. It uses vacuum suction cups for walking not only on the ground but also on walls and even ceiling. Vacuum suction cups can be tilted and used as wheels. This allows the robot to transform from w
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Where Did Earth's Water Come From?
696 views / 0 likes - addedThis video sponsored by our Subbable supporter Tab for a Cause: http://www.tabforacause.org?r=3 Please support MinuteEarth on Subbable - https://subbable.com/minuteearth Earth didn't have water when it formed, but it does now! How did it get wet? Created
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Did Scientists REALLY Find Signs of Life on Venus?
282 views / 1 likes - addedGenerally considered inhabitable, new observations suggest that Venus could in fact be harboring life. Where? In its clouds. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://sh
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This Blind Robot Learned To Climb Any Terrain!
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Independence Day: Resurgence Official Trailer #1 (2016) - Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum Movie HD
792 views / 0 likes - addedSubscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Like us on FACEBOOK: http://goo.gl/dHs73 Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt Independence Day: Resurgence Official Trailer #1 (2016) - Liam Hemsworth, Jeff
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Robots learn to use their hands
836 views / 0 likes - addedHaving robots learn dexterous tasks requiring real-time hand-eye coordination is hard. Many tasks that we would consider simple, like hanging up a baseball cap on a rack, would be very challenging for most robot software. What's more, for a robot to learn
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Banana Slugs: Secret of the Slime | Deep Look
584 views / 0 likes - addedBeneath the towering redwoods lives one of the most peculiar creatures in California: the banana slug. They're coated with a liquid crystal ooze that solves many problems slugs face in the forest -- and maybe some of our own. SUBSCRIBE: http://goo.gl/8NwX
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What’s Inside Area 51? | COLOSSAL MYSTERIES
1,519 views / 11 likes - addedArea 51: a hotbed of extra-terrestrial activity, or just your average, run-of-the-mill maximum security government facility? Images used under license from Shutterstock.com Welcome to COLOSSAL MYSTERIES, the show that explores life's most puzzling mysteri
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The Great North American Locust Plague
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Meteorite or MeteorWRONG?
699 views / 0 likes - addedThere are meteorites -- and then there are meteorWRONGS; deceptive terrestrial and human-made rocks and minerals that can be easily confused with special space rocks. Test your knowledge with the quiz at the end! Super shout-out to Jim Holstein for his wi
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The Cheerios Effect
598 views / 0 likes - addedWho knew there was so much science in a bowl of cereal? Don’t miss our next video! SUBSCRIBE! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ Ever notice how cereal clumps up in your bowl, or how cereal sticks to the edges of the bowl? Bubb
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NASA Insight Mission | What's Inside Mars?
616 views / 0 likes - addedInSight - Studying the 'Inner Space' of Mars InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to give the Red Planet its first thorough checkup since it formed 4.5 billion years ag
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Measuring the speed of light the old fashioned way: Replicating the Fizeau Apparatus
187 views / 0 likes - addedIn 1849, the first terrestrial measurement of the seed of light was made by Hippolyte Fizeau using a bright focused lamp, a spinning slotted wheel, and a reflector a few kilometers away. This famous experiment is one that I've spent the better part of the
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Magnetic Micro-Robots
813 views / 0 likes - addedTiny robots activated by magnetic fields may be used in future biomedical procedures. Start listening to Audible with a 30-day trial and your first audiobook, plus two Audible Originals free when you go to http://audible.com/veritasium or text veritasium
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Is Jupiter the Reason for Life on Earth?
581 views / 0 likes - addedShould we be thanking Jupiter for our existence? Here’s why some scientists believe the gas giant is responsible for the life-harboring oddity of our solar system. Watch More Space Crafts! | https://bit.ly/2w0YKD1 Read More: Wandering Jupiter accounts for
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The Oldest Ankylosaur Ever Found Had Spikes Fused to its Ribs - 7 Days of Science
183 views / 0 likes - addedIn this week's 7 Days of Science, we cover a mass of amazing dinosaur news, from learning that Ankylosaur remains had their spikes fused to their ribs, an in-depth study in how dinosaurs ran, and even some incredible new news about Spinosaurus! Although w
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How Jurassic Park paved a new and unique way movies are made | Nightly News: Kids Edition
117 views / 0 likes - addedWe talk about how one boys dreams of making movies came to life! We take a sneak peak into the making of Steven Spielbergs career as a movie director and how he became a pioneer for some of the worlds favorite blockbusters like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
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Life on Europa? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
694 views / 0 likes - addedThe Hubble Telescope found more evidence of vast plumes of water bursting through the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. What does this tell us about the potential for life on Europa? Get your own Space Time tshirt at http://bit.ly/1QlzoBi Tweet at us
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The Origin Of Mammal Movement: Harvard Adventures, Part I
643 views / 0 likes - addedPaleontologists today look at more than just fossil evidence to learn about organisms that lived millions of years ago. In this case, we're seeking to answer the question: how, and when, did mammals evolve their specialized movements? Turns out, the next
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Lucy's Journey
143 views / 0 likes - addedMeet Lucy as she prepares for the first ever journey to the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter.Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterJames Tralie (ADNET):Lead ProducerLead EditorWriterKrystof
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Why Wolves Don't Chirp
400 views / 2 likes - addedCheck out Brilliant (and get 20% off) here: https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth/Sounds that animals make can be really different, and it turns out that there's a reason why some species communicate with certain sounds.Thanks also to our Patreon patrons http
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YOU ARE MOVING A MILLION MPH NOW!
207 views / 0 likes - addedHow fast are you moving? Remarkably you are moving, by some definitions, around a million miles per hour. But, why don't we feel this motion? Is this speed useful in some way? And what does the question of speed really even mean? Join us today as Cool Wor
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How Did Roboticists Get This Ancient Fossil To Walk?
364 views / 0 likes - addedAdvanced computer tomography scans are changing the way paleontologists are studying ancient life and “OroBOT” may be just the beginning. How Did Science Get Neanderthals So Wrong? - https://youtu.be/VAaTaZqleeY Read More: Reverse Engineering the Locomoti
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A Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck
178 views / 0 likes - addedPBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Long necks gave sauropods a huge advantage when it came to food, but not in the way you think. And this benefit would allow the
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Mars: Crash Course Astronomy #15
893 views / 3 likes - addedThe fourth planet from the sun and the outermost of the terrestrial planets, Mars has long been a popular spot for missions and imagination. Phil walks you through the planet's topography, core, and features. We'll take a look back to Mars's past and make
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What Happens If A Star Explodes Near The Earth?
134 views / 0 likes - addedPeople have witnessed supernovae for millennia, but what threat do they pose to life on Earth? This video is sponsored by Brilliant. You can get started for free, or the first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly
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These College Students Built a Hyperloop Pod... Here's What Happened
512 views / 0 likes - addedCollege can be stressful with all the classes, exams and social events to balance. Now, imagine doing all that while building a Hyperloop pod that will be judged by Elon Musk… no pressure. A scrappy group of students from Wisconsin boldly took on that cha
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How Do We Keep Our Bacteria From Contaminating the Galaxy?
437 views / 0 likes - addedThere are laws requiring government spacecraft to be decontaminated, but are private companies under the same regulations? Clues to Life on Mars Could Be Found in the Driest Place on Earth - https://youtu.be/8zQXvT_FIhs Read More: How NASA Prevents a Spac
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When the Rainforests Collapsed
292 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Animal Wonders! https://youtu.be/tyK21xUnGrkThe Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for a takeover that would be a crucial turning point in the history of terrestrial animal life. If it werent for that time when the rainforests colla
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Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
693 views / 1 likes - addedWhat you don’t know about Jupiter can’t hurt you. Or can it? And be sure to check out ShanksFX’s “Jupiter in a Jar” Episode! https://youtu.be/mwvkQK3R2LE Get your own Space Time tshirt at http://bit.ly/1QlzoBi Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: faceboo
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Carl Sagan Christmas Lecture 1 - The Earth as a Planet
140 views / 0 likes - addedIn his first Christmas Lecture, American astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan explores planet Earth and the place, scale and geometry of the 'pale blue dot' in the Solar System. Sagan provides a unique insight into the history of our knowledge of the thi
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Why Do More Species Live Near the Equator?
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Carl Sagan Christmas Lectures 3 - The History of Mars
136 views / 0 likes - addedCold, arid, and tens of millions of miles away from Earth, Mars has intrigued scientists for centuries. The existence of liquid on its surface was confirmed by NASAs flyby mission, Mariner 4, in 1965, but the question of whether life exists on our neighbo
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Carl Sagan Christmas lecture 2 - The Outer Solar System and Life
151 views / 0 likes - addedFrom ancient organisms to the plants and animals we see today, our planet showcases a spectacular array of life. But beneath such diversity lies an underlying unity. All life on Earth is based on two molecules (the proteins and the nucleic acids) and the
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How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction
388 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtube.com/microcosmosIn the middle of the Cambrian, life on land was about to get a little more crowded. And those newcomers would end up changing the world. The arrival of plants on land would make the worl
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Can Bacteria On Earth Help Us Find Alien Life?
1,334 views / 6 likes - addedResearchers have found organisms that are able to survive the most extreme conditions on earth. What can this tell us about life in space? Don't miss Telescope, premiering Feb. 20 at 9/8c on Discovery! Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►►http://b
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New Evidence Could Rewrite the History of Human Bipedalism
325 views / 0 likes - addedYou might want to take a seat for this one: Humans walked on two feet way earlier than we previously thought. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.comWh
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Why The Moon Turns Red During A Total Lunar Eclipse
798 views / 0 likes - addedIf the moon is in Earth's shadow during a lunar eclipse, how can we still see it? And why does it turn red? The answer has to do with our own terrestrial sunrises and sunsets. Tech Insider tells you all you need to know about tech: gadgets, how-to's, gami
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SALTO - Berkeley's leaping robot
898 views / 0 likes - addedRoboticists at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jumping agility ever recorded. The agility of the robot op
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Life on Other Planets May Need Radiation to Thrive, Here's Why
286 views / 0 likes - addedNew research reveals that massive amounts of radioactive material might actually be essential for life outside our solar system. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http:
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Tiny Extremophiles Living in Rocks!
513 views / 0 likes - addedIn freezing cold sand, a burning hot mine, or even inside solid rock – these extremophiles live anywhere that you wouldn’t want to live. What are they? How can they live in such extreme places? Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Support SciShow by becom
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Why Most Fossils Are Incomplete
71 views / 0 likes - addedIn 1990, fossil collectors in South Dakota stumbled across a dinosaur that turned out to be a really big deal. Not just because it was a T. rex basically the most popular dino out there or because it ended up in Chicagos famous Field Museum but because of
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Why Most Rain Never Reaches The Ground
757 views / 1 likes - addedLess than half of the rain that falls from a cloud makes it all the way to the ground – because a lot evaporates while falling or after landing in treetops. Thanks to Georgia Southern University for sponsoring this video. Thanks also to our supporters on
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The Great Snake Debate
771 views / 3 likes - added90 million years ago, an ancient snake known as Najash had...legs. It is by no means the only snake to have limbs either. But what’s even stranger: we’re not at all sure where it came from. Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtub
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Daddy Longlegs Risk Life ... and Especially Limb ... to Survive | Deep Look
504 views / 0 likes - addedWhen predators attack, daddy longlegs deliberately release their limbs to escape. They can drop up to three and still get by just fine. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK: a new ultra-HD (4K) short video series created by KQED San Fran
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An Axolotl Is An Incredible Creature That Can Regenerate Its Brain And Heart
2,151 views / 22 likes - added*Editor's note: Dr. James Godwin is now a research scientist at MDI Biological Laboratory.* The story begins with the Aztec God of death and lightning, the Xolotl. As legends have it, he was a monstrous dog that guarded the sun god and ushered souls to th
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The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
664 views / 0 likes - addedYou can go to https://wix.com/go/eons to get started on your website! A huge and diverse subfamily of dogs, the bone-crushers patrolled North America for more than thirty million years, before they disappeared in the not-too-distant past. So what happened
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Why Earth Has Two Levels
488 views / 0 likes - addedGet NordVPN at https://NordVPN.com/minuteearth. Use code MINUTEEARTH to save 77%! Earth’s outer shell is made of two materials whose different densities and thicknesses give rise to two distinct “levels” on the planet’s surface. Watch our new show Paradig
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The Uncomfortable Truth About Deep Sea Mining
265 views / 0 likes - addedTo meet the world's growing demand for batteries, private companies have turned their attention to mining the ocean floor. But could this practice come at a greater cost to the planet than it's worth? Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Wat
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Why Don't Sled Dogs Ever Get Tired?
1,044 views / 2 likes - addedThanks to Squarespace for sponsoring this video! https://squarespace.com/minuteearth Sled dogs are the best endurance athletes in the world thanks to a weird quirk in their metabolism. Thanks also to our supporters on https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth _
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4 DEADLY Carnivorous Plants
960 views / 2 likes - addedHere are four ingenious ways carnivorous plants catch their prey. Head over to BrainCraft to watch Plants Can Learn, Too—and don't forget to subscribe! https://youtu.be/s0prAxQTuAA Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_scie
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The WEIRD Way Monkeys Got to America
105 views / 0 likes - addedMany of the greatest biological dispersal events in history likely happened because animals inadvertently traveled across the oceans on floating debris.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Ocea
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The Solar System Song | Silly School Songs
1,112 views / 7 likes - addedEnjoy this fun and informative song that can teach kids, adults and possibly aliens about our Solar System. For more music and information, please visit http://sillyschoolsongs.com.Lyrics:The Sun & the Moon & the starsMercury, Venus, Earth & MarsJupiter,
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Everything We Know About Dinosaur Evolution Just Changed, Here's Why
392 views / 0 likes - addedWhile it's been known that dinosaurs had feathers, the question of when feathers evolved is longstanding in the paleontological community. Subscribe to Seeker!http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylistIn 2019, scient
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Primitive Technology: Lime
1,243 views / 1 likes - addedAt the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty. Limestone is basically calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
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This Pulsating Slime Mold Comes in Peace (ft. It's Okay to Be Smart) | Deep Look
941 views / 1 likes - addedAre You Smarter Than A Slime Mold? Let’s go ask Joe Hanson: https://youtu.be/K8HEDqoTPgk SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK: a new ultra-HD (4K) short video series created by KQED San Francisco and presented by PBS Digital Studios. See
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Can You Cryogenically Freeze Your Body and Come Back to Life?
351 views / 0 likes - addedWhen you die, there are a lot of things you can do with your dead body--embalm it, cremate it, donate it to science (the list goes on), but some people will choose to have their dead bodies, or body parts, frozen until the technology of the future has (ho
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How To Go Extinct
412 views / 0 likes - addedSign up for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/Nkq830qWCShOur new evolution simulator reveals that extinction often happens when conditions change quickly. Check it out here: https://labs.minutelabs.io/evolution-simulator/Thanks
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Why Don't Scavengers Get Sick?
776 views / 1 likes - addedThanks to Harry’s for supporting this video. Use the coupon code MINUTEEARTH for $5 off your order! https://www.harrys.com/ Thanks also to our Patreon patrons: - @AntoineCoeur - Mark - @TodayIFoundOut1 - Emil Kampp Please support MinuteEarth on Patreon: h
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Archerfish Says..."I Spit in Your Face!" | Deep Look
743 views / 1 likes - addedThe archerfish hunts by spitting water at terrestrial targets with weapon-like precision, and can even tell human faces apart. Is this fish smarter than it looks? SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD (4K) short video series
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It took 10 YEARS (But it was worth it) - Amazing Science Gadgets/Toys 6
61 views / 0 likes - addedHello Everyone Sit back and relax. Enjoy 8 minutes of oddly satisfying scientific curiosities featuring various mind-blowing stuff!If you guys liked this video please follow us on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/physicsfun/And subscribe to our chann
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From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
541 views / 0 likes - addedYou can go to https://Audible.com/Eons or text “Eons” to 500-500 to get started today with your 30-day trial membership with a free audiobook The first era of our current eon, the Paleozoic Era, is probably the most deceptively fascinating time in Earth’s
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Roly Polies Came From the Sea to Conquer the Earth | Deep Look
703 views / 1 likes - addedPill bugs. Doodle bugs. Potato bugs. Wood Shrimp. Whatever you call them, there’s something less creepy about these critters than other insects. Maybe it’s because they’re not insects at all. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK is a ult
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When We First Walked
450 views / 0 likes - addedTry CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Fossilized footprints have proved that human ancestors were already striding across the landscape 3.6 million years ago. But who started them on that path? What species pioneered this style of loc
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Why Do All YouTube Videos Look Alike?
78 views / 0 likes - addedDon't make us crabby! Join our Patreon at https://patreon.com/MinuteEarthMany crustaceans from all sorts of starting points evolve to end up looking similar, likely due to outside pressures. Thats sort of like what happens with YouTube videos.LEARN MORE**
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Why Are There Penguins At The Equator?
773 views / 1 likes - addedTry Dashlane here: http://bit.ly/minutedash. Plus, here’s a 10% off promo code for Dashlane Premium: minuteearth When nutrients from the ocean depths reach the sunlit surface (like in the Galapagos), life is more productive. Thanks also to our Patreon pat
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Is Bigger Better?
152 views / 0 likes - addedThis video was made in partnership with Popsci! They recently published their "Muscles" issue, and wrote an article to go along with this video that you can read here: https://popsci.com/environment/strongest-animal-by-weightElephants might be strong, but
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How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms
802 views / 0 likes - addedSupport us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/eons Tyrannosaurus rex was big, Tyrannosaurus rex was vicious, and Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms. The story of how T-Rex lost its arms is, itself, pretty simple. But the story of why it kept those little limbs,
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How the Chalicothere Split In Two
505 views / 1 likes - addedTry CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Two extinct relatives of horses and rhinos are closely related to each other but have strikingly different body plans. How did two of the same kind of animal, living in the same place, end up look
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What Actually Makes Water Roll Off a Duck's Back? | Deep Look
303 views / 0 likes - addedDucks and geese spend *a lot* of time preening their all-weather feathers. This obsessive grooming and a little styling wax from a hidden spot on their back side maintains the microscopic feather structure that keeps them warm and dry in frigid waters.Ple
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Orchids: The Masters Of Lying, Cheating & Stealing
743 views / 2 likes - addedThanks to Curtin University and the University of Western Australia for sponsoring this video. Also, special thanks to Kingsley Dixon and the Orchid Specialist Group of the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission. ______ If you want to learn more about this to
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Our Best View Of Bacteria Is...From Space?!
373 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/Observing the effects of microbes using satellites can give us all sorts of useful information about life on Earth ... and other planets too.Thanks also to our Pat
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The Universe is Hostile to Computers
175 views / 0 likes - addedTiny particles from distant galaxies have caused plane accidents, election interference and game glitches. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription.This vi
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